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Integration of Corpus-based Approach into an EAP Class
Shih-ping Wang
Ming Chuan University, Taiwan
The corpus-based approach to second language acquisition has represented
a great step forward in the research of both language teaching and computational
linguistics. It has been widely used recently to analyze grammatical errors
in students' writing. Although error analysis was employed in the 1970s,
it seems that this
method has not been used in language teaching for the past
2 decades. The aim of this project is to revive this approach by describing
how thirty error types are classified for the development of a grammar
checker. A large corpus of over 8,000 sentences has been compiled in different
stages. The collected data are provided by students from Taiwan and Hong
Kong. This project has been done for four and half years. This paper primarily
focuses on common error patterns taken as the analytic basis of an EAP
writing course. As a result, 88 % of the students are satisfied with our
course design based on the integration of other methods, such as peer review,
processed writing, portfolio submitting, simulation company, etc.
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